Christmas-tree ornament.



. LEVI CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2, 1916.

Patelited. Rabi 0,1917.

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- design, which will possess all of the light- DANIEL LEVI, or new YORK, n. Y. Y

CHRISTMAS-TREE ORNAMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20% 191W.

' Application filed November 2, 1918. Serial N 0. 129,113.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL LEVI, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Christmas-Tree Ornaments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to Ohristmas tree ornaments or the like. Such ornaments have heretofore been made mostly of glass, which has the disadvantage that the articles are very fragile and have considerable weight. By my invention I aim to provide an ornament which may readily be made in any reflecting and eye-pleasing qualities of the glass ornaments but which will be light in weight, substantially free from danger of breakage and which will be cheap to manu:

facture.

Other objects and aims of the invention,

more or less broad than those stated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in part obvious and in part specifically referred to in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope ofprotection contemplated will appear from the claims. In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown a merely preferred form of embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of an'ornament embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a detail illustrating one way of connecting the coils to the axial supporting member of the arm; Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a modification; Fig. 5 is a'detail of the fiat light-reflecting wire or material of which the coils are made; Fig. 6 is a view illustrating a modification of Fig. 5; and Figs. 7 and,8 are plan and edge views respectively of still another modification.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, there is shown at 8 a supporting member which is preferably made of a plurality of strands of wire or other suitable material indicated in Fig. 3 by the numerals 9 andlO. Disposed, in the forms shown in the drawings, symmetrically about this axial supportingmember is a continuous strand of flat light-reflecting material, in a multitude of successive coils, progressing, from one to' the next, lengthwise of the axis and also spirally around the axis. Each coil is con nected to the supporting member 8 at a point in its circumference, preferably in the man- IlGI shown in Fig. 3, in which each coil is shown passing between the braided or twisted strands 9 and 10 of the supporting member. Obviously the angular position of the center of each coil with relation to the supporting member 8 will depend on the twist of the strands 9 and 10 at the particular point where they engage the coil. And

the twist also holds the coil in position as against any movement relatively to the supporting member. Inasmuch as the ornament n is to be suspended from the tree with its axis vertical, it is essential in order to secure the best light-reflecting qualities in the ornament, that the surfaces of the strand throughout the several coils shall be alined with the axis of the ornament, that is, that they shall be vertical when the axis is vertical. In order to produce a shaped article, such as is shown in Fig. 1, certain of the successive coils. will be of progressively different diameter. Thus such an ornament as is shown in Fig. 1 may be produced, or

such a multiple ornament as is" shown in Fig. 4.

titude or plurality of coils, I mean to include a multitude or plurality of sets of coils. Such sets of coils, also, may progress spirally about the supporting member. It will be understood that although I have shownthe supporting member central or axial, and the coils symmetrically disposed, such symmetry is not always essential.

At one end the axial supporting member of the ornament preferably protrudes to form an attaching portion, and to this attaching portion a sustaining cordor the like may be attached, or the attaching portion itself may be bent into the form of a hook or the like as indicated at 12.

The fiat strand of which the coils are made is shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8, Fig. 5 showing the plain fiat strand, which may be the ordinary familiar tinsel having a 'silvered surface or color, or otherwise ornamented as desired. In Fig. 6 the strand is shown as.

coil shape into which it is'formed, and so" -that if the coil is distorted accidentally 1t Will resume the coil shape as soon as pressure is removed. At the same time it is res lient enough so that it willnot break and W111 of course have the necessary tensile strength so a that it may be manipulated in the manufacture of the ornament.

Inasmuch as many changes couldbe made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodlments of my lnvention could bemade without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understoodvthat the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of-the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said tofall therebetween.

I claim:

1. An ornament of the kind described, comprising asupporting member or axis and a strand of flat light-reflecting material disposed alongsaid supporting member in a multitude of successive coils, progressing, from one to the next, len thwise of the supporting member, each 0011 connected to the supporting member at a point in its-circumference,-thesurfaces of the strand of each coil being substantially alined with the supporting member.

2. An ornament of the kind described,

, comprising. a supporting member or axis and a strand of flat llght-reflecting material disposed about said supporting member in a multitude of successive coils, progressing, from one to the next, lengthwise of the supporting member and also spirally around the same,'each coil connected to the supportmultitude of successive COIlS, progressing,

from one'to the next, lengthwise of the supporting member, each coil connected to the supporting member at a point in its circumference, the surfaces of the strand of each coil being substantially alined with the supporting member, the supporting member extending beyond the coils and having an attaching portion whereby, it may be suspended.

4. An ornament of the kind described, comprising a supporting member and a strand of flat light-reflecting material disposed about said supporting member in a multitude of successive coils, progressing, from one to the next, lengthwise of the su porting member, each coil connected to the supporting member at a point in its circumference, the surfaces of the strand of each coil being substantially alined with the supporting member of the ornament.

5. An ornament of the kind described, comprising a central supporting member or axis and a strand of flat light-reflecting material disposed symmetrically about said central axis in a multitude of successive coils, progressing, from one to the next,

lengthwise of the central axis and also spirally around the same, each coil connected to the axis at a point in its circumference,

the surfaces of the strand of each coil being substantially alined with the central axis of the ornament, certain of the successive coils lengthwise of the central axis and also spirally around the same, each coil connected to the axis at a point in its circumference, the surfaces of the strand of each coil being substantially alined with the central axis of the ornament, said central supporting member comprising a lurality of strands twisted together and etween which said coils pass and are held.

7. An ornament of the kind described, comprising a central sup orting member or axis and a strand of at light-reflectin material disposed symmetrically about said central axis in a multitude of successive coils, progressing, from one to the next, lengthwise of the central axis and also spirally around the same, each coil connected to the axis at a point in its circumference, said strand of light-reflecting material being twisted.

8. An ornament of the kind described, 5

comprising a central supporting member or axis and a strand of ,flat light-reflecting material disposed syr'mnetrically, about said central axis in a Imultitude of successive coils, progressing, from one to the next, lengthwise of the central axis and also sp1- rally around the same,- each coil connected to the axis ata point in its circumference, the surfaces of the strand of each coil being substantially alined with the central axis of the ornament, said strand of light-reflecting material being of zig zag form. 9. An article of the kind described, comprising an elongated supporting member,

and a plurality of coils of fiatllight-reflecting material supported along and around said supporting member, each in close proximity to its neighbor, each "coil being connected to the supporting member at a point said supporting member, each in close prox-' imity to its neighbor, each coilbeing connected to the supporting member at a point in its circumference; and the surfaces of the coils being alined with the supporting member, said supporting member having an attaching portion. 1

- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

nANIEL LE I. 

